When we meet over Zoom in late September, the artist Manuela Solano greets me in her club outfit: white leather jacket with fringe, white crop top, white hot pants, and a custom white leather harness used to secure her white cane to her body when she isn’t using it. It’s an incredible look. But she isn’t actually going out to a club tonight. The outfit is meant as more of a demonstration—evidence of her ebullient life in Berlin, something she had to carve out for herself as a blind trans woman new to the city.

That joie de vivre becomes something of a theme throughout our conversation. Solano, 38, who was born in Mexico but has lived in the German capital since 2019, is about to open her largest solo museum show to date at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. Called “Alien Queen / Paraíso Extra

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